Iron Curtain

2. A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
5. wall built which closed off access to West Berlin from East Berlin and East Germany
7. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
10. President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
11. The 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
12. a political and economic ideology that positions itself in opposition to liberal democracy and capitalism, advocating instead for a classless system in which the means of production are owned communally and private property is nonexistent or severely curtailed.
13. A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
14. Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city
15. period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union

1. dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953.
3. prime minister shortly after World War II began and served through the end of the war in Europe.
4. 33rd president, putting an end to World War II in the Pacific by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.
6. conflict that involved virtually every part of the world. Conflict was fought between the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan. and the Allies— France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China.
8. American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
9. A state that spanned throughout Europe and Asia that built towards communism